Charlotte Covey — The Monarch Review
men in the moon – Charlotte Covey
Monday, July 25, 2016 20:37 — 0 Comments
aries. when you lived in the basement, i dreamt of going down there, finding you, kissing you, replacing an unnamed ache with thirteen-year-old love. i wonder if you would have let me stay. taurus. it was when you whispered, princess. when you held my hand in the dark, rubbed my back amid frenzy. when i took you on my knees, confessed every dirty thought i ever had. we forget what it was like not to know. gemini. i named you gemini. you cusp, you bridge. you moment of insanity. i never saw myself in you. never attached your […]
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- Richard Kenney
